It’s not Scanning OR Voice...it’s Scanning AND Voice! For the past decade, companies that manufacture, inventory and deliver products have been researching, testing and deploying solutions that can increase productivity, eliminate errors and provide smoother, more manageable operational workflows. Additionally, omnichannel requirements and advances in approaches to supply chain management have permeated the industry and […]
Distribution Center/Warehouse Managers I have the good fortune of visiting many forward-thinking organizations that either run their own distribution and warehouse facilities or are in that business for their customers (3PLS, 4PLs). While they are consumed daily with a myriad of challenges including worker turnover (a big one these days), robotics research, WMS applications and […]
Voice picking solutions have evolved over time, so much so that voice picking then and now is a study in contrasts.
Agile development and deployment with a hands-free picking solution delivers for click and mortar omni channel distribution.
With Big Data analysis being at the forefront of intelligent decision support right now, the ability of warehouse management systems (WMS) to deliver so much relevant data to supply chain and distribution managers with respect to operational effectiveness and efficiency, has reached new levels.
There is an impending wave of change in the mobile warehouse technology market that Distribution Center professionals are aware of – Android will be replacing Windows as the operating system of choice for the new barcode scanning devices delivered by Zebra and Honeywell.
The great news is that there is voice technology available today, being used by thousands of bar code scanners for picking, receiving, cycle count, receiving, replenishment, put away, sortation, loading, packing, cross-dock, you name it.
One of the critical challenges that supply chain professionals face is providing support for multilingual workers.
